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<h1>World
Wind Geo: Closing the gap between Science and GIS</h1>

<p>This is the home page of World Wind Geo: The Eclipse Geo browser.
The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is a relatively new term that implies the
merging of geographical (location-based) information with the abstract
information that currently dominates the Internet. The World Wind Geo is
an experimental geo browser built on top of two of the best open source
technologies:</p>
<ul>
	<li>World Wind Java SDK - <a
		href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/" rel="nofollow">http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/</a>
	: Allows developers to embed World Wind technology in their own
	applications.</li>
	<li>Eclipse - <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eclipse.org/</a>
	: Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
	building an open development platform comprised of extensible
	frameworks, tools and runtimes.</li>
</ul>
<p>The new version of our 3D globe is closing the gap between GIS
&amp; SIS (Scientific Information Systems) by incorporating low/med/hi
resolution GIS datasets from multiple sources: NASA, MS Virtual Earth,
and others plus the great java NetCDF library for plotting/subsetting
capabilities of scientific data. </p>
<p>World Wind Geo has the following fetaures:</p>
<ul>
	<li>Interactive 3D navigation.</li>
	<li>Full support for WMS 1.1.x and 1.3.x using wizards.</li>
	<li><strong>Over 500 real time weather data sets</strong> from
	NOAA and the Navy Research Labs.</li>
	<li>Limited support for KML: <strong>Ground overlays,
	screen overlays, and placemarks only</strong>.</li>
	<li><i>Support for animated ground overlays to visualize
	events over time.</i></li>
	<li><strong>Scientific Data Plot/Subset capabilities with
	NetCDF</strong>.</li>
	<li>Open source: built on top of the World Wind Java SDK and
	Eclipse frameworks.</li>
	<li>Highly extensible: It uses the eclipse plugin framework to
	extend the user interface.</li>
	<li>Multi platform: built on proven standards: Java and Eclipse.</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Datasets" />Datasets</h1>
<p>WW Geo bundles the following datasets and features:</p>
<h1><a id="NASA" />NASA</h1>
<p><a
	href="http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/World_Wind_Data_Sources"
	rel="nofollow">http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/World_Wind_Data_Sources</a>
</p>
<ul>
	<li>Blue Marble (1-km/pixel resolution) - <a
		href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/"
		rel="nofollow">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/</a>
	</li>
	<li>i-cubed Landsat 7 (15-meter/pixel resolution) - Global Land
	Cover Facility. University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer
	Studies</li>
	<li>Elevation data (SRTM30Plus/SRTMv2/USGS NED derived dataset).
	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. <a
		href="http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/" rel="nofollow">http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/</a>
	</li>
	<li>USGS Topographic, B&amp;W Ortho, and Color Urban Area USGS and
	Microsoft Research. <a href="http://www.terraserver-usa.com/"
		rel="nofollow">http://www.terraserver-usa.com/</a></li>
	<li>United States Placenames. USGS Geographic Names Information
	System.<a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/" rel="nofollow">http://geonames.usgs.gov/</a>
	</li>
	<li>World Placenames. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. <a
		href="http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html" rel="nofollow">http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html</a>
	</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Microsoft" />Microsoft</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/</a>
<ul>
	<li>Virtual Earth Roads.</li>
	<li>Virtual Earth Satellite.</li>
	<li>Virtual Earth Hybrid (Satellite with place names).</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h1>The NetCDF Viewer</h1>
<p>NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries
and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access,
and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. <a
	href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/</a>
. WW Geo bundles a NetCDF viewer for the following conventions:</p>
<ul>
	<li>NetCDF File types: <a
		href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/"
		rel="nofollow">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/</a></li>
	<li>NetCDF conventions: COARDS, Models3, WRF, CF, and others (see
	link above).</li>
	<li><strong>To use the viewer </strong> select &quot;File/Open
	Dataset&quot; or simply point the built-in web browser to any
	OpeNDAP/THREDDS data server such as <a
		href="http://dataportal.ucar.edu:9191/dods" rel="nofollow">http://dataportal.ucar.edu:9191/dods</a>
	then click any dataset OpeNDAP link (The data will be displayed
	automatically on the NetCDF View).</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Others" />Others</h1>
<ul>
	<li>Full support for WMS 1.1.x layers and 1.3.x animated or static
	layers.</li>
	<li>Limited KML support: Temporal/static Ground, Screen overlays
	and placemarks.</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Requirements" />Requirements</h1>
<ul>
	<li>Graphics card with updated drivers. See <a
		href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/" rel="nofollow">http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/</a>
	</li>
	<li>Java 1.5</li>
</ul>
<h1>WW Geo Main GUI Screen
Shot</h1>
<p>Here is a screen shot of the main user interface under Mac OSX. The earth,
and moon are shown, the earth displays a sea surface temperature
ground overlay obtained from a scientific NetCDF OpeNDAP dataset.</p>
<p><img
	src="images/wwgeo-gui.jpg" /></p>
<h1><a id="Keeping_up_to_date!" />Keeping up to date!</h1>
<p>You can keep WWGeo up to date using the eclipse update system:</p>
<ul>
	<li>Under &quot;Help&quot;, select &quot;Software Updates/Find and
	Install&quot;</li>
	<li>Click &quot;Search for new features to install&quot;, then
	click next</li>
	<li>Click the &quot;New Remote Site&quot; button on the right and
	enter the update information</li>
	<ul>
		<li>Name: World Wind Geo Update Site</li>
		<li>Url : <a href="http://playerx.sf.net/wwgeo/" rel="nofollow">http://playerx.sf.net/wwgeo/</a>
		</li>
	</ul>
	<li>Click Finish, and follow the easy installation instructions.</li>
</ul>


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